| Título : | Fossils in the Making : Vertebrate Taphonomy and Paleoecology |
| Tipo de documento: | Libro |
| Autores: | Anna K, Behrensmeyer, Editor científico ; Andrew P. Hill, Editor científico |
| Editorial: | Chicago : The University of Chicago Press |
| Fecha de publicación: | 1980 |
| Colección: | Prehistoric archeology and ecology series |
| Número de páginas: | xii, 338 p. |
| Il.: | il |
| ISBN/ISSN/DL: | 978-0-226-04153-7 |
| Nota general: | Papers presented at a symposium, July 1976, sponsored by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research held at the BurgWartenstein castle in Austria.
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| Idioma : | Inglés |
| Clasificación: | [BFA] Ciencias Naturales y Biológicas:Paleontología
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| Palabras clave: | Paleoecología Vertebrados fósiles Tafonomía Paleogeomorfología Paleoambientes |
| Nota de contenido: | Introduction
Part 1.HISTORY AND BACKGROUND.
1.Taphonomy: Its History and Role in Community Evolution / Everett Olson.
2.Paleogeomorphology and Continental Taphonomy / W.W. Bishop.
Part 2.MODERN ECOLOGY AND MODELS FOR THE PAST
3.Linking the Ecology of Past and Present Mammal Communities / D.Western.
4.The Role of Modern Ecological Studies in the Reconstruction of Paleoenvironments in Sub-Saharan Africa / Malcolm Coe.
Part 3.TAPHONOMY IN MODERN ENVIRONMENTS
5.The Recent Bones of Amboseli National Park, Kenya, in Relation to East African Paleoecology / A.K. Behrensmeyer, D.E. Dechant Boaz.
6.Ethnoarcheological Contributions to the Taphonomy of Human Sites / Diane P.Gifford.
7.Some Criteria for the Recognition of Bone-Collecting Agencies in African Caves / C.K.Brain.
8.Early Postmortem Damage to the Remains of Some Contemporary East African Mammals / Andrew P.Hill.
Part 4.TAPHONOMY IN THE LABORATORY
9.Pluvial Taphonomic Processes: Models and Experiments / C.Bruce Hanson.
10.Functional Anatomy and Taphonomy / A.C.Walker.
11.Trace Elements in Bones as Paleobiological Indicators / R.B.Parker, H.Toots.
12.Organic Geochemistry of Bone and Its Relation to the Survival of Bone in the Natural Environment / P.E.Hare
Part 5.PALEOECOLOGY
13.The Interpretation of Mammalian Faunas from Stone Age Archeological Sites, with Special Reference to Sites in the Southern Cape Province, South Africa / R.G.Klein.
14.The Significance of Bovid Remains as Indicators of Environment and Predation Patterns / E.S.Vrba.
15.Community Evolution in East Africa during the Late Cenozoic / J.A.H. Van Couvering.
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